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Q: How do you use reciprocals in the real world?
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Believe it or not, school is a real life situation. If you are using it in school it real life for you.


Is the sum of the reciprocals 1?

No, the product of reciprocals is 1.


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I have a feeling that you wrote "opposite reciprocals"where you only needed to write "reciprocals".Their product is ' 1 '.


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If you multiply two reciprocals, their product must be 1.


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Every pair of mutual reciprocals has a product of 1 .


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Unless you are an electrical engineer or a math teacher, every number you will ever use in a real world situation will be a real number.


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The property of reciprocals as multiplicative inverses.


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Reciprocals are important because they serve as a guideline on how much more you need to get one whole.


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Find the sum of the reciprocals of two real numbers given that these numbers have a sum of 150 and a product of 40?

1/x + 1/y = (y+x)/xy But y + x = sum = 150, and xy = product = 40 So sum of reciprocals = 150/40 = 3.75


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